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...tingling silence, Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy stood before the Archbishop of Canterbury to recite their marriage vows. In the hearing of some 200 million TV droppers-in around the world, the princess promised in a soft, firm voice "to love, cherish, and to obey" her commoner husband. When they had knelt at the altar and signed the register, the Ogil-vys marched merrily back into the pale afternoon. As they drove off in a crystal coach, bagpipers skirled a pibroch, and the great bells pealed...
Richard Cardinal Cushing, Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, has rejected a former Harvard professor's contention that the Catholic Church might approve an oral contraceptive which the professor helped develop...
...Perkins was born i Devonshire, the daughter of Sir Philip Baker-Wilbraham, an English barrister, fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and for a long while, legal adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury. She grew up at Rode Hall, the family home in Cheshire, and attended school in London. She came to the United States i 1934 to visit friends of the family and while here met a young Harvard section man. He followed her back to England the following summer and they were married in the spring recess of 1937, returning to Cambridge in time for the resumption...
...Vatican is inclined to make. Church officials would like the Hungarians to offer Mindszenty a pardon and restore him briefly to his primatial see-but the Hungarians have evidently refused. Thus the Vatican will probably settle for having Mindszenty slip out and stay out. the formula used with Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slipyi when he was released last February from Soviet custody...
...Archbishop of Canterbury admit ted that Robinson was right in trying to find a new image of God that would appeal to those outside Christianity, but noted: "When the ordinary Christian speaks of God as being up there, he does not literally mean that God is in a place beyond the bright blue sky. He is putting in poetic language, which is the only serviceable language we have got. that God is supreme. It is utterly wrong and misleading to denounce imagery of God held by Christian men and women . . . and to say that we cannot have any new thought...